• Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    People in the imperial core study philosophy and somehow don’t read Marx?

    #JustAngloThings

    In most of Europe they still read Marx a lot.

    • duderium [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There’s seemingly a very weird division between what’s studied within and without the Anglosphere. Students on “the continent” study Freud, Lacan, Marx, and Hegel, but you will only hear these characters mentioned with contempt (if at all) in Amurka. We’re stuck instead with Plato, Foucault, and George Orwell lol.

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        It's super dependent on the university. In my (pretty high ranked) US university, our required contemporary civilizations class required reading Marx, and there was at least one class on socialism in some department every semester. During my time there I took a history of european radicalism/socialism class, a history of cold war cybernetics (of which a large part was Marxist debates about it in the USSR), and a Hegel class. I know political economy was also offered and required reading Marx's critiques of political economy, Next semester a Marxism In Germany and Russia class is being offered.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        edit-2
        4 years ago

        Plato, Foucault, and George Orwell lol

        One of these things is not like the other

        • duderium [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I soured on Foucault when I found out about his relationship with children.

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I don't like giving bad news but this Plato dude...

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I swear it's partially a continental philosophy vs non continental program divide. Like a lot of US programs I think hardly touch Hegel even.